levelthirteen
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I coded http://geocities.com/ao332s4jtbti0mti/applets/CA2D.html over the past few weeks and would appreciate any comments, improvements, informed Graphics Library flame wars, etc. Have fun
Update: uploaded http://geocities.com/ao332s4jtbti0mti/applets/Fractel.html
http://geocities.com/ao332s4jtbti0mti/applets/Avatar.html
And another host if the geocities ads are too insane:
http://levelthirteen.envy.nu/applets/Avatar.html
http://levelthirteen.envy.nu/applets/CA2D.html
http://levelthirteen.envy.nu/applets/Fractel.html
http://www.drod.net/forum/getattachment.php?id=387

Minesweeper clone with hot-swappable rules
http://levelthirteen.envy.nu/applets/SpiderSweeper.html
http://geocities.com/ao332s4jtbti0mti/applets/SpiderSweeper.html
http://www.drod.net/forum/getattachment.php?id=387
If http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/start/swingApplet.html
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/start/AppletDemo.html does not work; CA2D and spiderSweeper will not run.

[Edited by levelthirteen on 10-26-2003 at 08:16 PM GMT: small update]
[Edited by levelthirteen on 10-31-2003 at 08:34 AM GMT: 35 kB added]

[Edited by levelthirteen on 11-03-2003 at 10:10 AM GMT: saw too many ads in IE6]

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What is it?

It looks interestingly familiar - I used to have a Windows 95 game resembling that where you had to place coloured cells on a grid and depending on how many other cells of the same colour touched it affected whether the cell died or grew. However, it is very interesting to watch - all those colours swirling around the screen are quite hypnotic if you stare at them for too long.

However, it doesn't appear to be very interactive yet - the second row of tools do not appear to be working, so you cannot add things to the pattern/simulation and place your own cells on the screen, or change their colour. The last problem is that clearing the screen clears everything, so I need to re-launch the applet to start it again. Maybe you should put a "Reset" button somewhere in there.

Apart from that, it's a pretty good piece of work and I really like it. Keep up the good work!

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You are thinking of the game of life. I don't have enough time to watch it now but it looks like it follows different rules to the original.

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It looks like it follows lights-out rules, to me.

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agaricus5 wrote:
However, it doesn't appear to be very interactive yet - the second row of tools do not appear to be working, so you cannot add things to the pattern/simulation and place your own cells on the screen, or change their colour. The last problem is that clearing the screen clears everything, so I need to re-launch the applet to start it again. Maybe you should put a "Reset" button somewhere in there.

[Fixed]It does'nt handle being reloaded well[/Fixed]; a flaw unnoticable from a debugger that never reloads. Downloading it and running:

jar -xf CA2D.jar
java -classpath . ca2D.CA2D

will work*.

Mattcrampy wrote: It looks like it follows lights-out rules, to me.

The rules are that each tile is the sum of the four tiles around it, %4. Light blue is 1, green is 2, and dark blue is 3.

*If 'jar' and 'java' are recognized.

[Edited by levelthirteen on 10-24-2003 at 11:09 PM GMT: bugfix; removed 'static']

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levelthirteen wrote:
The rules are that each tile is the sum of the four tiles around it, %4. Light blue is 1, green is 2, and dark blue is 3.

Ahh...

That's quite clever.

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Doesn't work for me. Even the first time I accessed it, it gave me two runtime errors, and when I mouse over the gray java block, the message "load: class ca2D.CA2D not found" appears briefly and disappears.

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Sokko wrote:
Doesn't work for me. Even the first time I accessed it, it gave me two runtime errors, and when I mouse over the gray java block, the message "load: class ca2D.CA2D not found" appears briefly and disappears.

Please post the errors NOW; they should be under the coffee cup icon by the clock.

Oh, and a small update; see the top post.

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The only one that actually works is Avatar; the other two give the same "class not found" error which appears for a split second when the grey box is moused over. One says class ca2D.CA2D not found and the other says class fractel not found. I have no idea what this "coffee cup icon" is that you're talking about. I have never ever seen a single coffee cup icon on my computer, except for the icon to set up my Java preferences in the Control Panel.

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? ? ? ? , what OS/browser version/Java version are you running? They all run fine on xp/(Mozilla 1.5 | IE6)/SDK 1.4.2 .
, you seem to be the only one here running Linux; how many of these applets can you see?
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levelthirteen wrote:
? ? ? ? , what OS/browser version/Java version are you running? They all run fine on xp/(Mozilla 1.5 | IE6)/SDK 1.4.2 .
, you seem to be the only one here running Linux; how many of these applets can you see?

, I like how communicating with images breaks language barriers. Maybe I should write this entire post using symbolic drawings.

Maybe next time.

Anyway, Fractel and Avatar works fine on both hosts. The CA2D applet works on the alternate host, but not on geocities (if you have an alternate host, why use geocities at all ?). I'm using Mozilla Firebird with sun-jdk-1.4.2.01 plugin. The java console says the class ca2D.CA2D wasn't found.

Burn bandwidth!! Use avatars that are a hundred fold larger then "Sokko" or "trick"

Hey, Schik, how about allowing to use flash for avatars ?

- Gerry

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Hey, Schik, how about allowing to use flash for avatars ?

That's to you. To be honest, , I've thought of doing that. Right now I've got a couple big forum tasks on my plate - after I finish them, I might look into this.

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If only I could think of something interesting to say... then you'd all be stuffed.

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Mattcrampy wrote:
If only I could think of something interesting to say... then you'd all be stuffed.

Matt

How about ...
<!-- Begin Homer Simpson donut voice -->
Mmmmm... Strobing red spiral avatars ...
<!-- End Homer Simpson donut voice -->

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No, , it's more that I don't have an avatar, so if you wanted to refer to me, you'd be stuffed.

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At any rate, , I have almost exactly the same stuff as you. Running Windows XP, IE6, and Java 1.4.2, or whatever the latest version is. Strange.

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